pommel

He goes on the floor and pommel on Monday, and is a real medal contender in the later.

From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026

Conrad refers to one of the revelations of Floyd’s hidden abilities: “Can Hopper do the pommel horse?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Nedoroscik secured his second bronze medal in the individual pommel horse final on Aug. 3.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024

Rhys McClenaghan completed the gymnastics' 'Grand Slam' after winning gold on the pommel horse apparatus.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2024

The golden pommel was smooth and rounded, its color deliberately muted; ash leaves of pale gold entwined at the hilt, and a pattern of leaves covered the scabbard.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander

In the team finals however, a nightmarish set on pommels sent the Americans tumbling to fifth.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2023

Hilts and pommels were and are the most common decoration, for dragonglass is too brittle to make a useful crossguard.

From Time ● Jul. 17, 2017

The 1996 Olympic pommel horse champion Donghua Li performed a surprisingly moving routine to pommels attached to the balance beam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2016

The 7th Century hoard of 1,600 items including sword pommels, helmet parts and processional crosses was valued at £3.285m.

From BBC ● Jan. 2, 2015

They hand their burdens to others while they mount, then take the sacks again and loop them over the pommels of their saddles.

From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks

Illinois pommeled Northwestern, 7-6; Minnesota bewildered Iowa, 38-0.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the attempt, My Philadelphia Father got pommeled and knocked about like one of Biddle's sparring partners, and Biddle himself at times got kept out of sight in his corner.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bud and Mel had the advantage of surprise, and soon pommeled and grappled their foes into submission.

From Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Charles Brey

And after I had pommeled off the two pounds she'd gained at a twelve-course dinner the night before, she begins to tell me of her charities.

From The Shadow by Mary White Ovington

The workmen, seeing the reinforcements, beat a retreat, carrying their sadly pommeled comrades with them, but their insulting language was not restricted until they had passed out of hearing.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

A bag of sand, equal in weight to his adversary, was daily pommelled by the champion of America until he could make it swing and recoil satisfactorily.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 by Various

Every man endeavoured to be the first in making his exit, the door and passage were blocked up; each individual was pommelled by the person that happened to be behind him.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett

All the more reason for bringing the undertaking to a swift conclusion: wherefore I pommelled and spurred my hapless steed along with a ruthlessness of which at any other time I should be heartily ashamed.

From A Veldt Vendetta by Bertram Mitford

Shrouded in earth-coloured garments, they shrieked, strove, rang their bells, kicked their donkeys, elbowed their rivals, pommelled their camels, recited the Koran, or testified with frenzy, the terrific honesty of all their dealings.

From Bye-Ways by Robert Smythe Hichens

A man is apt to think that his insurance is settled and done with, when he has been pommelled about by the doctors and approved by the board.

From Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Old friends and allies did their best to save Britain this final pommeling.

From Time Magazine Archive

Charity rewarded his chivalrous pommeling of Cheever by asking him never to come near her again.

From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes

He caught the subway with the crowd of stockbrokers who came romping out of the stock exchange like released schoolboys after the day's tension, pommeling and shoving each other with released glee.

From Making Money by Owen Johnson

“In my castle,” says Joinville, “whosoever uses bad language receives a good pommeling, and this has nearly put down that bad habit.”

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

"A generous fellow plays for the play, a sordid one for the stake; an old fogy sits by and smokes the pipe of tranquillity, while Jack and Tom are pommeling each other in the ring."

From The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray

His will-power grows by a species of pommelling; not by the higher tactics of wrestling.

From The Gates Between by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

A bag stuffed with hay is so round that it is very difficult to keep upon it without rolling off, and there was much pommelling and flattening before the beds were at all tenable.

From The Madcap of the School by Balliol Salmon

They shook Roy into consciousness with joyous riot, pommelling him with affectionate roughness till he rose and joined with them stiffly.

From The Spoilers by Rex Ellingwood Beach

As the clenched fist likewise somewhat resembles an apple, perhaps that might occasion the term pommelling to be applied to fisty-cuffs.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Why," said Phil, "I couldn't believe my eyes at first; but true it was, all the same,—there was our gentle 'rosebud' pommelling away at a fellow nearly twice his size!

From We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Barbara Yechton